Gallicano Calandra

Gallicano Calandra (died 1930) was a Chicago Outfit enforcer during Prohibition. An Italian immigrant to Chicago's South Side, he was one of Al Capone's top lieutenants, and, in 1930, he accompanied his bookkeeper George Moretti to the Montana-Canada border to pick up a shipment of Canadian whiskey. Unfortunately, the shipment was ambushed by Canadian and American policemen, and Calandra fled to a remote house near the bridge where the deal was held. He was tracked down there by Eliot Ness, and he was wounded with a grenade before Ness attempted to arrest him. Calandra refused to put his gun down, instead cursing at Ness as he lifted his pistol; Ness was forced to blast him with his shotgun. Later, Ness' partner Jimmy Malone used Calandra's body as a prop to convince Morretti to cooperate with the investigators; Malone pretended to interrogate Calandra before shooting him through the head, intimidating Moretti into cooperating.